The research is entitled Reference in Narrative Texts. Writer investigates hypothesis focused on reference usage.  as a part of cohesive devices grammatical cohesion, and narrative mode genre text. developed distribution frequency device. objectives this are to analyze describe (1) entities or piece informations appear refer the same referent; (2) indicator genre; (3) accurance links within t...

In two previous essays (Perron, 2006 and Arsenault & Perron 2008), I have conceptualized the partaking in a game as a cognitive frame, as an ongoing process. To explain the gamer's immersion and progression through a game, I have resorted to the figure of the cycle, of the spiral instead of talking about Huizinga's " magic circle ". In this model, three interconnected spirals are represented: t...

the controversial theories of modern physics created a remarkable revolution in twentieth-century literature. the progressive novelists of the century, inspired by the concepts in quantum mechanics, expressed the concerns of living in the modern world in the form of non-linear, heterogeneous writing based on doubt. in his autobiographical work, entitled w or the childhood memory, george perec p...

bahman-nāme, a late 5th-century (a.h.) or early 6th-century (a.h.) epic poem, is one of those significant poems that used the shāh-nāme as a model. this story was composed by īrānshāh in four parts. the first part recounts the adventures of bahman, son of esfandīār, who, at the behest of rostam, marries katāyūn, the daughter of the king of kashmir. although generally this poem belongs to the ep...

this study investigated the utilization of intertextuality in the fourth edition of the interchange book series for english as foreign language (efl) learners using fairclough’s (1992) framework. ten texts were randomly chosen among the reading passages of the interchange book series and later analyzed regarding intertextuality kinds and methods of reporting. findings indicated that two types o...

This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

This article explores the hegemonic status enjoyed by the crime novel in the contemporary era, agenre which, in contrast to the literary mainstream, continues to flourish. It suggests that thedevelopment of a body of research on crime fiction has resulted in the widespread acceptance ofa finite number of unassailable generic qualities. One of these, the heuristic function of the cri...

Critical genre analysis, especially targeting specific professional practices, crucially depends on the availability of discursive data from the professional practice under investigation, which is not always easily accessible. In this paper, I take up a typical example of this kind of difficulty focusing on an international initiative, in which I have been involved for the last several years, w...

In this paper, I analyze the illness stories narrated by a mother and her 13-year-old son as part of an ethnographic study of child chronic pain sufferers and their families. In examining some of the moral, relational and communicative challenges of giving an account of one's pain, I focus on what is left out of some accounts of illness and suffering and explore some possible reasons for these ...

most of iranian comedy films, before and after the revolution, can be categorized as romantic comedies. these films depict romantic relationship between men and women as a funny incident and constitute the iranian romantic comedy genre. drawing on genre theory, this paper aims at understanding the relationship between the romantic comedy’s heroes and heroines with their friends, and at finding ...